The potential of genomics for infectious disease forecasting

JE Stockdale, P Liu, C Colijn - Nature Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic technologies have led to tremendous gains in understanding how pathogens
function, evolve and interact. Pathogen diversity is now measurable at high precision and …

Computational strategies for dissecting the high-dimensional complexity of adaptive immune repertoires

E Miho, A Yermanos, CR Weber, CT Berger… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The adaptive immune system recognizes antigens via an immense array of antigen-binding
antibodies and T-cell receptors, the immune repertoire. The interrogation of immune …

A SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate would likely match all currently circulating variants

B Dearlove, E Lewitus, H Bai, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the urgency for a safe and effective
vaccine. Many vaccine candidates focus on the Spike protein, as it is targeted by …

RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees

H Morlon, E Lewitus, FL Condamine… - Methods in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A number of approaches for studying macroevolution using phylogenetic trees have been
developed in the last few years. Here, we present RPANDA, an R package that implements …

Is BAMM flawed? Theoretical and practical concerns in the analysis of multi-rate diversification models

DL Rabosky, JS Mitchell, J Chang - Systematic biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian analysis of macroevolutionary mixtures (BAMM) is a statistical framework that uses
reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo to infer complex macroevolutionary dynamics of …

Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders

J Eberle, D Dimitrov, A Valdez-Mondragón… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Background Microhabitat changes are thought to be among the main drivers of
diversification. However, this conclusion is mostly based on studies on vertebrates. Here, we …

Connecting the Dots--Density-Connectivity Distance unifies DBSCAN, k-Center and Spectral Clustering

A Beer, A Draganov, E Hohma, P Jahn… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Despite the popularity of density-based clustering, its procedural definition makes it difficult
to analyze compared to clustering methods that minimize a loss function. In this paper, we …

Deep learning from phylogenies to uncover the epidemiological dynamics of outbreaks

J Voznica, A Zhukova, V Boskova, E Saulnier… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Widely applicable, accurate and fast inference methods in phylodynamics are needed to
fully profit from the richness of genetic data in uncovering the dynamics of epidemics …

Distance metrics for ranked evolutionary trees

J Kim, NA Rosenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Genealogical tree modeling is essential for estimating evolutionary parameters in population
genetics and phylogenetics. Recent mathematical results concerning ranked genealogies …

Generative power of a protein language model trained on multiple sequence alignments

D Sgarbossa, U Lupo, AF Bitbol - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Computational models starting from large ensembles of evolutionarily related protein
sequences capture a representation of protein families and learn constraints associated to …